The Arts: treatments and subjects

In his book In the Shadow of the Church: The Building of Mosques in Early Medieval Syria Mattia Guidetti examines the establishment of Muslim religious architecture within the Christian context in which it first appeared in the Syrian region, contributing to the debate on the transformation of late antique society to a Muslim one.

In The Oasis of Bukhara: Population, Depopulation and Settlement Evolution, Rocco Rante, archaeologist at the Louvre Museum, presents the results of a large-scale and ambitious regional archaeological investigation of the oasis of Bukhara, corresponding to the delta of the Zerafshan River, from the end of the 1st millennium BCE to the Timurid period.

This book offers an avenue for understanding the parameters, scope, meanings, and impacts of environmental protest.

This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique "e;poem of place"e; in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect.

This book deals with Iranian photography from its first photography exhibition in 1964 until the present.

This book focuses on a biographical and cultural rendering of Adlai E.